ILPS Philippines

13/10/2026

🚨 U.S. imperialism is escalating its campaign to control AI and critical minerals supply chains through Pax Silica for war and plunder. Join us in a hybrid workshop on how peoples’ movements are fighting back and how we can further strengthen our collective struggle and solidarity.

🗓️ October 14
🕐 1:15 pm Bangkok time

✍️ Register via Zoom: https://bit.ly/DownWithThePax

12/10/2026

ILPS Philippines joins ILPS Thailand, the Thai Peoples’ Movement against the IMF-World Bank, and other movements and organizations from various countries that gathered in Bangkok to protest the annual meetings of these U.S.-controlled multilateral institutions. The IMF and the World Bank are holding their annual meetings in the Thai capital from October 12 to 18. The gathering of the peoples’ movements is part of the Global Day of Action organized by the People’s Global Campaign against the IMF-World Bank.

In a joint statement with the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) released today, as the annual meetings open, ILPS Philippines pointed out how the IMF-World Bank has systematically disempowered the people through their conditional lending and policy impositions that favor creditors, corporations, and powerful economies. In the Philippines, they have helped entrench policies that impoverish and oppress the Filipino people, such as the liberalization of agriculture and food, deregulation of the oil industry, privatization of water and electricity, and imposition of the highly regressive value-added tax (VAT). The joint statement also stressed how IMF-World Bank funding complements the government’s counter-insurgency efforts that target civilian communities that resist their anti-people programs and projects, resulting in human rights atrocities.

12/10/2026

In time for IMF-WB Annual Meeting
BAYAN, ILPS-PH SAY IMF-WB DESERVES TO BE SHUT DOWN

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Philippines join various peoples’ movements today in a Global Day of Action against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which are holding their Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 12 to 16.

At a protest march this morning from España Boulevard to Mendiola bridge, BAYAN led various groups in airing the call to shut down these U.S.-controlled multilateral institutions for the oppression they have wrought upon the world’s peoples, especially in poor countries, for the past 81 years.

Contrary to the meeting’s theme, “Thailand’s New Horizons: Empowering People, Building Resilience,” the IMF-World Bank has systematically disempowered the people through their conditional lending and policy impositions that favor creditors, corporations, and powerful economies. Their lending programs and structural adjustment policies have pressed governments to open markets, deregulate industries, privatize public services, implement austerity measures, and restrain public spending, thereby facilitating plunder by private monopoly capital. The only type of resilience that these institutions build is the capacity of people to bear the impacts of their blatantly oppressive programs and policies.

In the Philippines, the IMF-World Bank helped entrench the liberalization of agriculture and food, deregulation of the oil industry, privatization of water and electricity, and imposition of the highly regressive value-added tax (VAT). These measures have left farmers unduly exposed to unbridled import competition, families vulnerable to rising fuel and food prices, and the general public paying more for essential products and services. They even shape our labor and education programs to create a cheap and docile workforce at the expense of workers' families and the country’s development requirements.

The IMF-WB's economic development model treats people’s vital needs as costs to be contained and public assets as opportunities for private profit. It weakens local production, deepens dependence on imported goods and foreign capital, and gives corporations greater access to the country’s land, energy, infrastructure, and other resources. The costs fall on workers facing insecure jobs and low wages, farmers and fisherfolk losing markets and livelihoods, and poor communities struggling to afford food, water, electricity, health care, education, and other basic services. Additionally, many of the initiatives that the IMF-World Bank funds also cause displacement, such as massive infrastructure projects like mega dams and power plants.

The IMF-World Bank also plays a role in human rights violations. Development finance from these institutions complements the government’s counter-insurgency efforts that target civilian communities that resist their anti-people programs and projects. Such militarization of development initiatives is evident in World Bank projects like the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), a supposed poverty reduction scheme used in the government’s counter-insurgency strategy.

We should shut down the IMF and World Bank as instruments of imperialist economic control and domination, cancel illegitimate debts, end oppressive loan conditionalities and austerity programs, stop the use of development programs to legitimize displacement and counterinsurgency, and bring back our resources under democratic control.

The world needs international cooperation that respects self-determination and sovereignty, provides resources without imposing harsh neoliberal conditions, supports public services and local livelihoods, and puts the people’s rights and welfare ahead of profit. Such cooperation means that the government must be accountable to the peoples affected by its decisions and not dominated by the agenda of an imperialist power.

09/10/2026

President Marcos Jr. said he is “terribly excited” about Pax Silica’s implementation in the Philippines. Speaking at the 24th Forbes Global CEO Conference last Oct. 8, Marcos claimed that the U.S.-led initiative is a grand opportunity for the country to move up the value chain further.

We should be terribly concerned. The Marcos regime is deeply integrating the Philippines into U.S.-dominated high-tech supply chains at the expense of tens of thousands of Aytas and farmers. There is nothing to be excited about a foreign military-industrial project that will wantonly plunder our resources and drag us into wars.

! Reject Pax Silica! ✊

06/10/2026

Al Aqsa Flood anniversary
Stand with Palestine, resist US imperialist war, sanctions, and siege!

As the world marks the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Al Aqsa Flood, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Philippines reaffirms our solidarity with the Palestinian people in their continuing struggle against occupation, dispossession, and genocide perpetrated by US imperialism and Israeli Zionism.

Three years on, Gaza remains devastated. Over 75,000 have been killed in Gaza, including 21,000 children. In the Occupied West Bank, more than 1,100 have been killed in military operations, raids, and settler violence, including up to 250 children. It is estimated that women and children comprise up 60% of all Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the past three years. Additionally, up to two million Palestinians - or up to 90% of Gaza’s population - have been internally displaced.

While we remember Al Aqsa today, we must not forget that the suffering of the Palestinian people did not begin three years ago. When Israel was established as an imperialist project, it spawned decades of Zionist occupation, forced displacement, settlement expansion, blockade, and systematic denial of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. October 7 must be understood within this longer history of colonial oppression and resistance.

The Palestinian struggle for national liberation has become a focal point in the broader global struggle against US imperialism. The US has provided Israel with decisive military, financial, political, and diplomatic support. In the past three years, US direct military assistance to Israel has reached $21.7 billion, which includes Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and transfers of missiles and ammunitions used to kill Palestinians, including women and children.

We note that the same imperialist power that sustains Israel’s occupation also wages wars, imposes sanctions and blockades, and uses economic and military coercion against peoples across the world to assert its hegemony.

Thus, beyond Palestine, we express our firm solidarity with peoples facing US imperialist sanctions, siege, and intervention, especially in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Yemen. Resistance to domination, coercion, and denial of self-determination and liberty as sovereign nations link these various struggles, with US imperialism as the common enemy.

For the Filipino people, building and strengthening our global solidarity and movement against US imperialism is crucial more than ever. In the past 3-4 years, we have seen an unprecedented escalation of US military presence and intervention in our country. This comes as the imperialist competition for resources and spheres of influence between the US and China intensifies. The entire country has been transformed into a big US military base. Advanced missile systems have been deployed. US imperialism is also building a massive infrastructure for war production and plunder, including through the Pax Silica initiative.

The Marcos regime is drawing the Philippines deeper into US military strategy in Asia, placing our lands, seas and communities at risk in a geopolitical confrontation and inter-imperialist war that does not serve the interests of our people.

We demand an immediate end to Israel’s occupation, blockade, and military attacks, and support the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and return. Furthermore, we call for an end to US complicity in these violations, the cessation of US economic sanctions and coercion against nations like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Yemen, and the complete withdrawal of US military intervention and presence in the Philippines.

From Palestine to the Philippines, resist US imperialist war and occupation!

Free Palestine!

End sanctions and siege!

Stand with Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and all countries resisting US imperialism!

Uphold the right of all peoples to national liberation and self-determination!

Down with US imperialism!

04/10/2026

The Americans never left Subic

03/10/2026

END U.S. IMPERIALIST WARS, SANCTIONS, AND SIEGE! ✊

Stand with Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Yemen!

Three years since Al-Aqsa Flood marked a turning point in the Palestinian struggle, the Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, International League of Peoples’ Struggle – Philippines, and allied groups will once again take to the streets this October 7 to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian peoples’ fight for land, freedom, and right to self-determination.

Israel’s so-called “ceasefire” has brought no end to the genocide in Palestine. In Gaza, Palestinians remain under siege amid weaponized hunger, mass destruction, and relentless attacks. In the West Bank, Israel continues to expand its colonial settlements. Backed by U.S. military and political support, Israel’s genocidal war has devastated Palestinian lives, communities, land, and the means to survive. Since the U.S.-sponsored ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated it over 4,000 times, while continuing its wars in Lebanon and Iran.

This is part of a broader imperialist drive to preserve U.S. global dominance. From the Monroe Doctrine and tightening blockade against Cuba, continuing threats against Venezuela, sanctions and war against Iran, and expanding military alliances worldwide, U.S. imperialism is doubling down on coercion and war to maintain its grip over the world.

The Philippines is not spared from these schemes because it is a frontline of this imperialist agenda. Under Marcos Jr., the country is being further drawn into the U.S. war machine through expanded EDCA sites, intensified Balikatan exercises, growing military infrastructure, and war production and plunder under Pax Silica. The U.S.-derived counterinsurgency through NAP-UPD fuels fascist attacks and IHL violations on communities, activists, while the government tightens military and diplomatic ties with U.S. and Israel.

To stand with Palestine is to stand against oppression in all its forms. Our solidarity is a shared fight for freedom and self-determination. This October 7, we take to the streets with Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and all peoples of the world asserting their national sovereignty against imperialism.

📢JOIN THE PROTEST THIS OCTOBER 7!
10:30 AM @ T.M. KALAW, MANILA

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FREE PALESTINE!
END THE SIEGES AND SANCTIONS!
STOP U.S. IMPERIALIST WARS AND INTERVENTION!
UPHOLD THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!
DOWN WITH U.S. IMPERIALISM!

28/09/2026

🚨 UPDATES FROM THE RESISTANCE: The current situation in Iran, Palestine, Venezuela, and Cuba

📅 October 2, 2026
🕓 4:00–7:00 PM (Manila time)
💻 Via Zoom
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ResistanceOct2

From bombs and blockades to sanctions and financial isolation, peoples across the world continue to confront wars of aggression, intervention, and economic coercion perpetrated by U.S. imperialism.

As part of the People Against Siege & Sanction (PASS) 10 Days of Action, ILPS Philippines, together with the Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association, BAYAN, and the Stop the US-Israel War on Iran Campaign Network, invites you to the webinar:

Hear updates on the struggles of peoples confronting war, sanctions, blockades, occupation, and foreign intervention, and learn how movements on the ground are organizing and resisting.

The webinar takes place during the PASS 10 Days of Action, October 1–10, an international initiative calling attention to the human consequences of sanctions and sieges and mobilizing solidarity with affected peoples, including those in Iran, Yemen, Cuba, and Gaza.

Join activists and solidarity movements in the Philippines and internationally as we discuss the current situation, exchange perspectives from ongoing struggles, and explore opportunities for international solidarity and coordinated action.

END THE SIEGES AND SANCTIONS!
STOP U.S. IMPERIALIST WARS AND INTERVENTION!
UPHOLD THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!
DOWN WITH U.S. IMPERIALISM! ✊

26/09/2026

Stand with Ultras Filipinas. , not the right to resist a patently destructive & plunderous project! ✊

22/09/2026